George Grant MacCurdy

Anthropologist, born in Warrensburg, Missouri, USA. He earned a PhD at Yale, where as professor of prehistoric archaeology and curator of anthropological collections at the Peabody Museum (1898–1931), he wrote widely on American and Old World prehistory, and influenced developing academic and museum programmes in the new discipline of anthropology.

George Grant MacCurdy, A.M., Ph.D. (April 17, 1863 - November 15, 1947) was an American anthropologist, born at Warrensburg, Mo., where he graduated from the State Normal School in 1887, after which he attended Harvard (A.B., 1893; He was the author of:

The Eolithic Problem (1905) Some Phases of Prehistoric Archœology (1907) Recent Discoveries Bearing on the Antiquity of Man in Europe (1910) A Study of Chiriquian Antiquities (1911) Human Skulls from Gazelle Peninsula (1914)